| Juice Is Stranger Than Friction Contributor(s): Slim, T-Bone (Author) |
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ISBN: 0882860704 ISBN-13: 9780882860701 Publisher: Charles Kerr OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 Annotation: A working stuff, a hobo, and an irreconcilable revolutionist...second only to Joe Hill as the IWW's most popular songwriter, T-Bone Slim incontestably was the Wobblie's greatest man of letters." For two decades readers of IWW publications recognized him as the Union's "most noted columnist." America's finest hobo wordsmith and a remarkable aphorist, he also merits a place among the great American humorists. The aim of the present volume is to make available for the first time a representative selection of work by an important author who has suffered undeserved neglect. Every message of pure revolt deserves to be heard, and T-Bone Slim's is one of the purest. His writing at its best has a remarkable flair, a deep and dazzling humor, a profound awareness of the sensuous alchemy of words. It also happens to be unlike anything else in the world." [From the Introduction by Franklin Rosemont] |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.06" W x 8.47" (0.47 lbs) 159 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Cultural writing. A working stiff, a hobo, and an irreconilable revolutionist-- that is to say, utterly lacking in qualifications for literary respectability-- T-Bone Slim won for himself a total exclusion from academic histories and textbooks of American literature, a distinction legions of lesser writers, before and since, have found it nearly impossible to attain. T-Bone Slim was one of the very few American authors of the 1920's and 30's who realized that the abolition of wage-slavery requires the abolition of mental slavery-- that the unfettering of the imagination is the revolutionary writer's first and essential task. A vigorous protest against the bourgeoise devaluation of language as a medium of exchange, T-Bone's writing reflects an authentically surrealist ambition to expand the limits of human expression-- to exceed the accepted boundaries of discourse by putting language in a state of exhilarating effervescence. |